Lucknow: Sixty percent polling was recorded on Tuesday in the sixth phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections in 68 constituencies across 13 districts, state chief electoral officer Umesh Sinha said.

There were reports of police using mild force to disperse a local BSP leader and his supporters creating ruckus at a polling center at Singhani gate area in Ghaziabad. They were protesting against absence of booth level officer to distribute voter slips.

Similarly, in Agra, people created a ruckus at a center at Ahmadia Hameedia college in Mantola alleging irregularities in electoral rolls. Senior officers have reached the spot.

Polling in Noida, Dadri and Jewar assembly seats in Gautam Budhh Nagar was going on peacefully.

In Bhatta Parsaul, which was the centre of the land acquisition row, farmers were seen coming out to vote. Their leader Manvir Singh Tevatia, who had spearheaded the farmers' agitation, is fighting election from jail. The area falls under Jewar Assembly seat.

Congress has fielded Dhirendra Singh from Jewar. He was the man on whose bike Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi had reached Bhatta Parsaul last year.

In Chief Minister Mayawati's native Badalpur village, farmers had lined up to cast their vote. BSP has fielded Satvir Gujjar, sitting MLA from here, while Congress has fielded Samir Bhatti.

Bhatti had once served as MLA from Dadri and his father Mahinder Singh Bhatti was twice MLA from here. BJP has fielded Nawab Singh Nagar, who was twice elected MLA from here in the past. Samajwadi Party has fielded Raj Kumar Bhatti as candidate.

In Noida, which has become an assembly seat for the first time, a good turnout is expected. Earlier Noida was part of Dadri assembly seat and rural voters used to decide the winning pattern here.

All the political parties including Congress, SP, BSP, BJP and RLD have done hectic campaigning in the Jat land of the state.

This phase would test the popularity of Congress' alliance with Ajit Singh led Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) which has stronghold in the western region of the state. Ajit Singh's son Jayant Chaudhary, senior party leaders Baba Hardev Singh, Hazi. Yakoob Qureshi, Nawab Koukab Hameed and Satyapal tyagi are trying their luck from Mant, Etmadpur, Sardhana, Baghpat and Kithore assembly constituencies respectively.